Best 1.20 Ancient City Seeds

Ancient cities directly under or next to spawn — swift sneak, echo shards and the deep dark's best loot, minutes into a world.

Java Edition 1.20 · 15 verified seeds

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Map of Minecraft seed 7089125094884330677 around spawn Explore this seed
#1

7089125094884330677

An ancient city 0 blocks from spawn (dig down in the deep dark) — swift sneak, echo shards and recovery compasses early.

Spawn
0, 0 (Lush Caves)
Stronghold
1,708 blocks
  • Ancient City0
  • Ruined Portal395

Nearby biomes: Dark Forest · Lush Caves · Old Growth Birch Forest · Birch Forest · Dripstone Caves · River

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#2

3619333827037299362

An ancient city 16 blocks from spawn (dig down in the deep dark) — swift sneak, echo shards and recovery compasses early.

Spawn
0, 0 (Dripstone Caves)
Stronghold
2,243 blocks
  • Ancient City16
  • Ruined Portal143
  • Village336

Nearby biomes: Dripstone Caves · Snowy Taiga · Snowy Plains · Frozen River

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#3

-6464745562689798152

An ancient city 16 blocks from spawn (dig down in the deep dark) — swift sneak, echo shards and recovery compasses early.

Spawn
0, 0 (Dripstone Caves)
Stronghold
1,567 blocks
  • Ancient City16
  • Ruined Portal80

Nearby biomes: Dripstone Caves · Plains · Forest · River

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#4

8430897857432245700

An ancient city 16 blocks from spawn (dig down in the deep dark) — swift sneak, echo shards and recovery compasses early.

Spawn
0, 0 (Dripstone Caves)
Stronghold
2,239 blocks
  • Ancient City16
  • Ruined Portal322

Nearby biomes: Dripstone Caves · Badlands · Warm Ocean · Savanna · Forest · Wooded Badlands

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#5

-5425190909135794000

An ancient city 32 blocks from spawn (dig down in the deep dark) — swift sneak, echo shards and recovery compasses early.

Spawn
0, 0 (Badlands)
Stronghold
2,694 blocks
  • Ancient City32
  • Ruined Portal244
  • Village355

Nearby biomes: Badlands · Dripstone Caves · Desert · Lukewarm Ocean · River · Warm Ocean

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#6

2325024507389998167

An ancient city 32 blocks from spawn (dig down in the deep dark) — swift sneak, echo shards and recovery compasses early.

Spawn
0, 0 (Dripstone Caves)
Stronghold
1,866 blocks
  • Ancient City32
  • Ruined Portal301

Nearby biomes: Dripstone Caves · Forest · Birch Forest · Plains · Grove · Jagged Peaks

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#7

4665271128283362987

An ancient city 48 blocks from spawn (dig down in the deep dark) — swift sneak, echo shards and recovery compasses early.

Spawn
0, 0 (Jagged Peaks)
Stronghold
1,809 blocks
  • Ancient City48
  • Ruined Portal283

Nearby biomes: Lush Caves · Forest · Dripstone Caves · Grove · Old Growth Spruce Taiga · Old Growth Pine Taiga

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#8

-4757285599421911448

An ancient city 51 blocks from spawn (dig down in the deep dark) — swift sneak, echo shards and recovery compasses early.

Spawn
0, 0 (Dripstone Caves)
Stronghold
1,566 blocks
  • Ancient City51
  • Ruined Portal113
  • Village187

Nearby biomes: Forest · Dripstone Caves · Plains · Flower Forest · River

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#9

3127100400186461268

An ancient city 58 blocks from spawn (dig down in the deep dark) — swift sneak, echo shards and recovery compasses early.

Spawn
0, 0 (Dripstone Caves)
Stronghold
1,576 blocks
  • Ancient City58
  • Ruined Portal306
  • Village396

Nearby biomes: Dripstone Caves · Savanna

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#10

-8142069089528239631

An ancient city 58 blocks from spawn (dig down in the deep dark) — swift sneak, echo shards and recovery compasses early.

Spawn
0, 0 (Taiga)
Stronghold
1,994 blocks
  • Ancient City58
  • Ruined Portal240

Nearby biomes: Cold Ocean · Plains · Deep Cold Ocean · Stony Shore · Taiga

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#11

-1388316535399578319

An ancient city 80 blocks from spawn (dig down in the deep dark) — swift sneak, echo shards and recovery compasses early.

Spawn
0, 0 (Birch Forest)
Stronghold
1,744 blocks
  • Ancient City80
  • Village445
  • Ruined Portal496

Nearby biomes: Birch Forest · Forest · Old Growth Birch Forest · Ocean · Dripstone Caves · River

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#12

8671485401369381353

An ancient city 80 blocks from spawn (dig down in the deep dark) — swift sneak, echo shards and recovery compasses early.

Spawn
0, 0 (Savanna Plateau)
Stronghold
2,534 blocks
  • Ancient City80
  • Ruined Portal215

Nearby biomes: Savanna · Eroded Badlands · Badlands · Dripstone Caves · Wooded Badlands · Savanna Plateau

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#13

-4036941347668881879

An ancient city 82 blocks from spawn (dig down in the deep dark) — swift sneak, echo shards and recovery compasses early.

Spawn
0, 48 (Forest)
Stronghold
2,069 blocks
  • Ancient City82
  • Ruined Portal279
  • Pillager Outpost288

Nearby biomes: Ocean · Forest · Plains · Stony Shore · Cold Ocean · Grove

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#14

-7956038982476458798

An ancient city 91 blocks from spawn (dig down in the deep dark) — swift sneak, echo shards and recovery compasses early.

Spawn
0, 0 (Dripstone Caves)
Stronghold
1,540 blocks
  • Ancient City91
  • Ruined Portal182

Nearby biomes: Dripstone Caves · Old Growth Birch Forest · Dark Forest · Birch Forest · River

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#15

7270333232493690857

An ancient city 93 blocks from spawn (dig down in the deep dark) — swift sneak, echo shards and recovery compasses early.

Spawn
0, 0 (Dripstone Caves)
Stronghold
2,219 blocks
  • Ancient City93
  • Ruined Portal250

Nearby biomes: Dripstone Caves · Savanna · Jungle · Sparse Jungle · River · Forest

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About these 1.20 seeds

Each seed here has an ancient city within 350 blocks of spawn horizontally — dig down carefully into the deep dark and you're there. Ancient cities generate deep underground (the city floor sits around Y -51), so the coordinates on the card are where to dig, not where to walk.

1.20 (Trails & Tales) added cherry groves and buried trail ruins to world generation, and 1.20.1 is one of the most-pinned modpack versions — plenty of worlds are still being started on it. Every seed below was verified on 1.20's own generation, not back-ported from a newer list: 1.21 changed worldgen (trial chambers, then the pale garden), so a list verified there can't honestly claim these coordinates.

Verified for Java Edition 1.20 (Trails & Tales). Biomes, terrain and structures are identical across 1.20 – 1.20.6, so any 1.20.x world matches these maps — the only generation change in the patches (1.20.2 made diamond ore more common in the deepslate layers) doesn't affect anything these cards measure.

Playing the current version instead? See the latest ancient city seeds — or the same list for 26.3 · 1.19. All 1.20 lists live under best 1.20 seeds.

Frequently asked questions

How is this different from the main ancient city seeds page?
Same criteria, different worldgen: these are separate seeds found and verified on 1.20's generation. Our main ancient city seeds list is verified on the current version, and seeds don't transfer exactly between the two.
Which releases do these seeds work on?
The whole 1.20 line — 1.20 through 1.20.6, including 1.20.1 modpacks: biomes, terrain and structure positions are identical across the patches. (The one generation change, 1.20.2 making diamond ore more common in the deepslate layers, doesn't move anything on these cards.) On 1.21+ the same seed generates almost the same world, but trial chambers (1.21) and pale gardens (1.21.4) appear and a few placements shift, so use our main lists for current versions.
Do these seeds work on Bedrock Edition?
No — Java and Bedrock generate different worlds from the same seed. These lists are Java Edition only.